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Okay, here’s the first batch of historic synchs by baker b. during his journey through our golden age of synching. I’ll leave the links up for about a week at a time. Again, I post these for EDUCATIONAL purposes only… I’ve NEVER made a cent off of the synching hobby that I recall. It’s a labor of luv.

To disappoint some, perhaps, I’m going to leave out the DSotR/Rainbow Sphere tension story that takes place at the beginning of my synching experience in the later 90’s, and jump into the next century with…

Piper’s Nightmare Christmas, Full of Secrets (2000, 2001)

These were created about 8 months apart as I recall, but yet they can be treated as a set. PNC is one of the first synchs that I knew about using early Floyd for the audio, in this case the Piper at the Gates of Dawn album, their first and also Syd Barrett’s showcase work. We start not at track one, however, but five: Pow R. Toc. H. This synchs quite nicely with the opening of the film. This is, in Randy T.’s words, a one drop synch in that you cue the audio and video together at a certain spot and just sit back and enjoy. You’re finished with the manipulation aspect. Let the album just play till it’s ended, through tracks 6-11. Now this is a bit different from DSotR in that I used an internal cue where the movie shifts in focus during the bridged transition between tracks 7, the fabulous Interstellar Overdrive, and track 8, The Gnome. The tracks on the far side of this are lyrics oriented, and music slanted on the near side, so the tone of the synch changes considerably as well at this midpoint.

I watched PNC yesterday again for the first time in quite a while. Like I said track 5 still works pretty great, but track 6 doesn’t have much to match with in the video. We rebound in track 7 with a nice opening, and I think that one works all the way through if you imagine that we are continually following Jack during his journey toward and into Christmastown. I personally see Jack Pumpkinhead, the star of the movie, as a Syd Barrett figure, successful as an underground star in The Pink Floyd Sound but falling into the traps opened up by more commercial success with Pink Floyd. Jack’s crazy attempts to merge Xmas and Halloween mirrors Barrett’s inability to blend fame with creative purity.

I see Full of Secrets as a direct follow up/culmination, with Twin Peaks Black Lodge as the place of descent. Like doppleganger “bad” Agent Cooper catches and replaces the good Cooper at the end of the synch/video, so Barrett loses the battle with sanity at the end, mirrored in the strange structure of “Jugband Blues” from the Saucerful of Secrets album. The center of Full of Secrets, however, is the superb title song from this 2nd Floyd album, the followup to Piper but with limited Barrett input. Again we do not start at track 1 for the synch, but 4 in this case (Corp. Clegg), and also skip track 6, See Saw, to reach the end of the synch and the album and the tv series.

See what you think. Keep in mind again this is a rip from a VHS Tape and also any editing is done the old fashion analog way.

You should be able to see both synchs in full using “previews” with this link:

The Gila collage series appears to be over. It’s obviously related to the series of the Art 10×10, even in name. Gila is one of the most interesting village names left in northern Jasper County Illinois after those taken by the Art 10×10 (Rose Hill, Yale, Newton, Wheeler, and Jasper itself).

Similarities/differences: Gila, like basically all the tiers of the Art 10×10, consists of a base of 10 collages, but in this case augmented by a 00 collage and an 11th collage, as far as I can determine. Let’s look at each one, and I assume Hucka D. will help me with an interpretation, since he likes doing such things. So let’s just bring him in now.

Hucka D.:

The first is called [“The Kniks”], and came first — January 7th was the finish date as I’m seeing.

This is and isn’t the first collage of the series, so you are right to call it 00 or label it as such. The collage plays on the fact that Ray Davies’ head off the sleeve of the hit single Dead End Street/Big Black Smoke conjuncts with or sort of “captures” the word “Big” of the second [ b-side] song. Then this is copied and allowed to substitute for the heads of the 3 other band members of The Kinks — except now they’re called The Kniks, and the songs are Dead End Steert and Big Black Skome. Clever. Meaning? Probably that Ray Davies was obviously the main creative genius of the group and wrote almost all the songs. He probably thought of it has his band, although he tried not to. He had a big head, then? Well, I didn’t create the overlap of “Big” and his head, and you didn’t either. You’re just playing on something already there. So that’s kind of the trigger for the whole Gila series.

bb:

Thank you Hucka D. Very informative. This is also the birthplace of The Kniks, perhaps, where they split off from The Kinks.

Hucka D.:

That is correct. This is done through the overlap of not one but both involved songs with the Cardboard City. The Kniks, by attaining variable status here, finally break free of a Zapple coupling. But “Dead End Street” might be their best overall song, their “Strawberry Fields.”

bb:

Except for “Waterloo Sunset”.

Hucka D.:

Maybe. Guess the latter ends better.

bb:

And this is Carrcass-1 or Carrcass-One, kind of like Carcassonne. (pause) We also have “Powerman” included here, and the Gila series is presently housed in the Power Tower of New Pietmond, Hucka D. The Power Tower is like the tallest building of the Cardboard City, where the person shaped like a Square lived. He was the most powerful entity of the town, and controlled the connection with virtual reality.

Hucka D.:

Power Tower being the tallest building of New Pietmond as well.

Hucka D.:

Yes. It’s on collages of the Gila series itself.

bb:

Maybe we should move on to collage 01 of the series, then. We have Ray Davies’ head present. We have 4 again, just like in 00, and all with the word “Big” on them. This is obviously The Kniks of the original collage, then. Not really The Kinks.

Hucka D.:

No. It’s like The Beetles. They have passed into variant territory, probably connected with the Sunklands Initiative.

bb:

Let me put up a link. The original collage is found in this post, but I’ll just copy the image over here. This one’s called “Making it BIG” for now.

Hucka D.:

The Kniks have sprung into action in the series. The heads of 3 of the members, which are all 1 member now [Ray], cover some Google Earth text at the bottom of the collage. The 3 heads are joined. A 4th Ray Davies/Kniks substitutes for a chimney on the central house of the picture, found in Google Earth in Avebury, UK. It was a notable snapshot for you because of the seeming presence of 2 upright dragonflies hovering above the house. That’s not what they are but that’s okay — we wanted you to choose this photo for the collage. You will return to this house. The house contains scenes, in its windows, of other oddities in GoogleEarth you had recently found, including an elogated headed alien, also of Avebury, and a Rockley mystery fireball.

bb:

Still haven’t seen anything like that elsewhere in Second Life — did I just say *Second Life*? — GoogleEarth I mean, of course.

Hucka D.:

Rockley will come up again soon. The house contains these images. In front of the house, along the road, are the 3 heads of The Kniks mentioned before. This is in essense their house, where they play and rehearse and live. They are from Avebury.

bb:

Hmm.

Hucka D.:

The 4th head is the key, the one that acts like a chimney. From it smoke emerges, and the numbers 333 are seen within [note: this is white smoke, not black]. A headless entity seems to claim the middle of the three 3’s for a substitute head. We know now this is associated with the 3 sisters of Hackpen Hill: Marge, Patty and Selma, 3 basically identical and circular beech groves just to the north of the famous white horse on the hill. To the left is a crop circle image coming from the fields just below the sisters — at Uffcott.

bb:

Let me see if I can dig up some more information quickly on that circle, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Go ahead sir.

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bb:

It apparently dates from 1995, Hucka D. I found it on this site, where it is described as a solar image. And that’s how it’s probably used in the collage — as a substitute for the sun itself. The golden color goes along with this too.

Hucka D.:

Uffcott will come up again in a minute. Do you have anything to add about this particular collage?

bb:

I remember adding the hand above “Chimney Ray’s” head after the second collage was perhaps completed, or near completion. It’s the hand above Paul McCartney’s head from the Sgt. Pepper album cover. I didn’t know until recently that Davies didn’t care too much for The Beatles back in the day, but I guess that’s just rivalry, like he had with his own brother within his own band. So his head, here, takes the place of McCartney’s head. Davies/Kniks heads will return in the collage series in 08 as a resolution to all this, seemingly.

Hucka D.:

We should move on, then. We can talk about elements of 01 through higher collages. So 02 is called “Ring_o” according to that post.

bb:

Oh Hucka. We forgot to talk about “Apricot Bone” in that last collage. Apricot Bone is perhaps the name of a band as well, maybe like Sergeant Pepper was for The Beatles. As The Beetles created Sgt. Pepper, so The Kniks created Apricot Bone.

Hucka D.:

That could be correct. Apricot is a UmapS name, from the Washington state. Relates to the site where you have information about Sunfish Pond in New Jersey, and how it’s linked to Block Island, Rhode Island through rock stackings. Sunfish comes up again soon as well in Gila. (pause) But to collage 02, which will answer some of these questions. We have Paul’s head now positioned below the same hand as above Ray’s head in 01, and this is from Sgt. Pepper again. Union of Hand and Head, just like we have in Arkansas on the Arkansas Line of The Way. This is the *correct* interaction of the Hand with a Head. Ray’s is a substitute. He cannot be Paul, nor does he need to. He is a great songwriter in his own right. He just didn’t have a Lennon to help him. In variant terms, Paul is Marty, and Lennon is Lemon. I say this because there’s a Lemon in collage 02 as well.

bb:

From the union of Sgt. Pepper and The Kniks comes “Introducing Lemon”, which is actually an album by a Chicago math-rock group called Cheer Accident. Pretty good album, and I need to give it a spin again. I use the album cover in this collage, like I did with The Kniks single sleeve in collage 00. The head of the album is fiddled with again — I put Ringo’s head on top of the one on the Cheer Accident album. Otherwise the album cover is unaltered. The insertion of Ringo’s head is logical here because he is the trumpeter of the Sgt. Pepper military band, just like the person on the Cheer Accident album is a trumpeter in a military band. Their uniforms are very similar. So the marriage of Sgt. Pepper Ringo with this cover is a natural, if we add in the mistique of the name “Lemon” from the album. Lemon is actually Lennon, or a variation thereof. Lennon stands beside Ringo on the Sgt. Pepper album, holding a tuba french horn instead of a trumpet. The image is that of Ringo, but it is also Lennon, then, through Lemon. Lennon and McCartney, also pictured here, form the greatest songwriting duo of all time, most likely.

Hucka D.:

You said the album cover was unaltered except for the addition of Ringo’s head — and Ringo becomes Ingor in the variant name playing game — but there’s another change and that’s the overlap of “Apricot Bone” again on the name of the band across the top of the Introducing Lemon cover. But part of their name remains in the overlap: in the center, we still see “Accid”. This refers to LSD acid, like as perhaps sung about on songs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds from the Pepper album. This refers to that. But also this is actually part of the word “Accident”, like some say all this collaging business you do is. It’s all accident and there’s no meaning. Well, I’m here to say there is meaning. We are talking about it here. There is no Accident. (pause)

bb:

I want to get to that central ring figure of collage 02 as well tonight. This is cut from the middle of the Uffcott crop circle pictured in collage 01. It represents a ring itself, and is like another Uffcott crop circle coming from the end of just this past crop circle season, Hucka D., an obvious forgery or hoax. I talk about this crop circle at the bottom of this post:

The name of the woman being proposed to through this hoaxed circle, Laura, also piqued my interest. In David Lynch’s Fire Walk With Me, Agent Cooper, speaking to Laura in a dream from the Black Lodge, urges her not to take a particular ring, associated with a wedding ring before this although not connected with any particular, normal wedding in the movie or attached Twin Peaks series. No…

Hucka D.:

The hoaxed crop circle is the power of the Black Lodge manifesting itself in the Uffcott fields. The ring is also a Hope Diamond, and is thus cursed. There is even a glinty spark at the northwest corner of your ring in collage 02 to remind us that this is a diamond ring. The glint is the same as the Rockley mystery fireball pictured in one of the house windows of collage 01. In collage 03 this same glint on the same ring will become All Illuminated. Should we move on?

bb:

Eh, why not. (pause) But you want to talk how *you’re* the man waving in collage 02?

Hucka D.:

No. But it *is* me. I’m golden; he’s golden. But let’s go to 03.

bb:

So this one’s called “King Tull” apparently, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Here we have pictured the 3 sisters for real, although it’s hard to see them in the final collage unless you know what you’re looking at. Insert one of those other pictures of the sisters as a contrast…

Okay, so that’s the 3 sisters from the western edge of Uffcott, where they can be seen straight on, as it were. They appear equal from there — equally spaced. This makes the Uffcott location special for you. It will be the place of Saucer Contact.

Lisa the Vegetarian wants me to start studying Winesap. Lisa the Vegetarian wants me to understand that the basic design of Herman Park comes from Arkansas and The Way and Winesap. 56. The end of March 2013 may be a decision point.

“The governments know of my return”.

“Quetzalcoatl?” I asked. “No: Master. Master Shake. Of the Aquamarine Rebel Strike Force.” “Great,” I answered. “Sapphire’s precious Aquamarine grew into the rebellious Aqua Teen and psychologically became split from her.” “Baby Jesus and the lasers,” came his non sequitur answer. Should have known.

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Lisa started with Hand + Head at the center of the Arkansas Line. “Go there,” Marty said. “Unite Hand and Head so that I will be revealed.” So she did and came back and he said she did pretty good for a young’n. She took it kindly. “Go there again and insert Heart.” So she did. She came back. “You did okay,” Marty said to her. “You did kind of good.” She was not fazed. She stood her ground. “Now the most difficult part, young lady girl woman.” Marty seemed drunk but wasn’t. “Create Health *off the map*. No… create *Hustle* and then change it to Health by spinning it in the opposite direction. Which direction are your creations spinning now?” Lisa had to think. “Clockwise? Yeah, clockwise.” “We are in the northern hemisphere so that is good and correct,” Marty answered back. “Now you must make the southern hemisphere come to the northern hemisphere.” Lisa was confused. She tapped her finger to her chin in thought. She thought of her mother Marge and her aunts Selma and Patty back in Wiltshire, England. But she was now in Amereca, land of the freaks and home of the braves. Indian braves, that is, before White Man took it all. White Buffalo Men like Marty himself. But she didn’t say this aloud. “Do I really *have* to go to Amereca?” she asked Marty, who then looked at her reprovingly. She knew she had to. She looked down at the books strewn around her feet, around the rock she sat upon. She was still in Wiltshire but she was in Amereca.

—–

She picked up one. “Light in August” was its title. She picked up another, and another. “Those are no good,” Marty said to her. “They’re all protected. No, you have to use *this* one.” He handed her a somewhat smaller book, a red book. No title. Instructions for building an ATM sperm bank machine? Not quite. Let’s look at Tennessee, a new blog category under UmapS, then.

Winesap *and* Old Winesap. I knew, well, Herbert Domain refers in part to Frank Herbert, the famous science fiction author of the Dune series. In the Dune movie directed by David Lynch, an especially powerful scene is where *Paul’s hand* is inserted into a Pain Box.

From the folds of her gown, she lifted a green metal cube about fifteen centimeters on a side. She turned it and Paul saw that one side was open – black and oddly frightening. Paul slowly put his hand into the box. He first felt a sense of cold as the blackness closed around his hand, then slick metal against his fingers and a prickling as though his hand were asleep…

“What’s in the box?”

“Pain.” He felt increased tingling in his hand, pressed his lips tightly together. How could this be a test? he wondered. The tingling became an itch… The itch became the faintest burning… It mounted slowly: heat upon heat upon heat… . The burning! The burning! He thought he could feel skin curling black on that agonized hand, the flesh crisping and dropping away until only charred bones remained.

It stopped! As though a switch had been turned off, the pain stopped… “Take your hand from the box, young human, and look at it.” He fought down an aching shiver, stared at the lightless void where his hand seemed to remain of its own volition. Memory of pain inhibited every movement. Reason told him he would withdraw a blackened stump from that box. “Do it!” she snapped. He jerked his hand from the box, stared at it astonished. Not a mark. No sign of agony on the flesh. He held up the hand, turned it, flexed the fingers. “Pain by nerve induction,” she said. “Can’t go around maiming potential humans. There’re those who’d give a pretty for the secret of this box, though.”

We also know from Carrcass+3 that this Pain Box is the same as an ATM sperm bank machine. Whose Line is It Anyway? Paul inserts his hand instead. “My what?” Colin asks in return, obviously surprised.

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“No you have to use *this* one,” Marty said in parallel time. Lisa took the book… not really Herbert Domain but Public Domain. Winesap is in public domain, which means she could make cash from it. Cash and credit and more cash and credit. She could rule the world… no, rule *Wealthy* Mountain and its Healthy Lake. “Use this to make Health in Arkansas,” he said. She needed cash, she needed to be *wealthy*. Then she could create the parallel domain in parallel time. I think.

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She brought her father Homer to Wealthy Mtn. through the use of virtual reality technology only she could afford to her knowledge. The Kniks knew of this and approved. This was at Quartz Brook. He was a Plastic Man, meaning he was a toy avatar. Plastic Man is bookended by Plastic People by Zapple. Through this, Lisa knew that she could not make Plastic Man because it implied or led to Plastic People. But she herself was Plastic. So this was the great sacrifice.

“Yes, 2d to 3d,” said Hucka D. He was on Mars.

But then it was the 3rd, Tin S. Man, also sponsored by The Kniks, that drew her interest next. Another A. Mann. This was at Tinsity, in the next valley over from Quartz Brook but still on her mountain: Wealthy Mountain. She was experimenting with different locations. But this was a failure as well, at least initially.

“All were successes,” Hucka D. perhaps corrected.

Superman was the last man and the 4th. This was Lion’s Roar. Lisa on Byng. She created The Way here, connecting Kansas and Kentucky, while just before this establishing Kansas and Kentucky themselves. Lisa knew that this 4th was the best and most perfect… the *most* successful. It is here that Paul’s legacy was secured.